Donating Blood Imagine that your father had just suffered a heart attack‚ and has to go through open-heart surgery in order to repair the damage that happened to his heart. Imagine your little nephew or niece was born with a rare heart defect and had to have a daily transfusion of blood in order to have a chance to wake up the next day. Imagine that your best friend went to the doctor and had just been diagnosed with leukemia‚ a disease requiring regular platelet transfusions. These aren’t
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Donating Blood Introduction How many of you have either donated blood or have heard of one of your friends donate blood? I’m sure this applies to pretty much all of you. As of right now‚ at least this was my impression‚ donating blood is viewed by most people as something that is the right thing to do‚ however if you don’t donate it might not make a huge difference‚ similar to voting. A few years ago‚ my father was in a car accident and needed a blood transfusion that possibly saved his life. Ever
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Class 5th Period Blood Drive Donating blood is a very simple‚ but important and serious process. Its involves collecting blood from the donor and using it to treat those in need of it. Several blood donations are given each and everyday. Donating blood benefits how you have the ability to change a person’s life. It not only benefit’s the receiver life‚ but it also benefit’s the donor as well. If one were to donate blood regularly‚ it would lower their risks of diseases. Each time blood is given‚ it
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Law against gays donating blood I would like for all of you to picture this scenario. You’re a male over the age of 17 and your brother‚ sister or any loved one for that matter‚ got into a car crash and is in need of a blood transfusion. The hospital doesn’t have the amount or the blood type that she or he needs‚ but luckily‚ you are of the same blood type as your loved one. Your first instinct‚ I’m sure‚ would be to donate. They make you fill in a questionnaire to see if you are eligible and one
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Why organ donation is important? Did you know that seventeen people will die today? They will not die because they were in a car wreck‚ involved in a shooting‚ or because it was simply that their time had come. Seventeen people will die because they couldn’t get an organ transplant in time. Money’s not the issue here. Neither is scarcity. There are potential donors who pass away every day who could meet the needs of people on the waiting list. The problem is the potential
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Organ donation for transplantation has become altruistic worldwide. All organ donations have become altruistic‚ meaning that there are no financial incentives to people who are willing to have their organs or organs of their deceased family members used for transplants. During the past two decades
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Blood banking law RA 1517: Blood banking law June 16 1956 PURPOSES -safeguarding -promoting -preventing RA 7719: Repealed or repeals 1517 May 5 1994 The national voluntary blood services act AO 9 s. 1995 Ao 17- As. 1998 Purpose of 7719 To promote voluntary blood donation To provide safe‚ adequate‚ affordable and equitable blood products To inform the public To require all blood banks/ centers to operate on a non profit basis Donors 1. Voluntary
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pledger like me. 3. Malaysia having an opt-in organ donation system is among the lowest rate of organ donation in the world based on 2010 World Health Organisation (WHO) report which is far cry in comparison from other Opt-out organ donation system countries. (Transition: Therefore‚ I am here today to bring all of you here to support Opt-out system for organ donation rather than Opt-in organ donation system that we are currently using as opt out donation system saves time‚ increase life expectancy of
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Thousands of people are waiting for life changing organ donations and thousands are being added to that list every day‚ however there a very limited amount of organ donors available. According to donatelife.net Ninety percent of people are in support of organ donation‚ however only 52% are registered to be organ donors. Over 120‚000 men‚ women‚ children‚ and their families are waiting for lifesaving organs and every ten minutes someone is added to the national transplant waiting list. Over 8‚000
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How do you feel when you have to wait for something you really‚ really want? What if this was something you literally couldn’t live without? How many of you have actually thought about organ donation? Well according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation network‚ as of 5:30 pm on Wednesday there are 110‚912 patients currently on the waiting list‚ and among these are men‚ women and children of all races and ethnic backgrounds‚ and to that number one more person is being added every eleven minutes
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